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As a visitor to Iceland where 90%+ power is geothermal I would like to point out that this is a vary long term solution.  Iceland happens to be special in that geothermal plants can be built almost anyplace since hot springs are all over the island and steam bubbles up even in country's only major city.

Idealy we should bring people from Iceland, who have major experance building and running Geothermal Plants, to help us choose good spots to set up plants.  Most likly we will find that we do not need to destroy natural hotsprings to build our plants just drill holes deep into the ground and fill it with water to use as a heat extange system.

Lots of additional information can be found here:

http://www.energy.rochester.edu/is/reyk/

Paul Brinker - Vancouver Wa - paul.brinker (at) gmail.com

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